poly1305

The Poly1305 universal hash function and message authentication code

0.9.1 88M downloads/mo #880 most downloaded on crates.io RustCrypto/universal-hashes

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Last release 1 months ago

08 Jul 2026

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gaps range from 2 weeks to 1.6 years

Nearly every release is documented

notes for 17 of 18 stable releases

Nothing withdrawn

no release was ever pulled

10 years old

29 releases · first in 2016

7 releases in the last 12 months

see the full history below

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29 releases · Oct 2016 to Jul 2026

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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0.9.1 08 Jul 2026
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Fixed
- Unsound implementation of zeroization (#343)
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Fixed
- Unsound implementation of zeroization (#343)
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0.9.0 10 May 2026
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Changed
- Edition changed to 2024 and MSRV bumped to 1.85 (#228)
- Relax MSRV policy and allow MSRV bumps in patch releases
- Update to universal-hash v0.6 (#213, #310)
- Bump cpufeatures to v0.3 (#292)
- Rename poly1305_force_soft => poly1305_backend="soft" (#323)
Removed
- opaque-debug dependencies (#233)
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Changed
- Edition changed to 2024 and MSRV bumped to 1.85 (#228)
- Relax MSRV policy and allow MSRV bumps in patch releases
- Update to universal-hash v0.6 (#213, #310)
- Bump cpufeatures to v0.3 (#292)
- Rename poly1305_force_soft => poly1305_backend="soft" (#323)
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- opaque-debug dependencies (#233)
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0.9.0-rc.6 10 Feb 2026 pre-release
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Releases the following:
- ghash v0.6.0-rc.6
- poly1305 v0.9.0-rc.6
- polyval v0.7.0-rc.8
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0.9.0-rc.5 02 Feb 2026 pre-release

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0.9.0-rc.4 28 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.9.0-rc.3 05 Nov 2025 pre-release

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0.9.0-rc.2 03 Sep 2025 pre-release

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0.9.0-rc.1 30 May 2025 pre-release

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0.9.0-rc.0 26 Jul 2024 pre-release

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0.9.0-pre 08 Mar 2024 pre-release

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0.8.0 31 Jul 2022
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Changed
- Relax zeroize constraints (#147)
- Upgrade to Rust 2021 edition (#147)
- Use stable aarch64_target_feature (#154)
- Bump universal-hash to v0.5 (#155, #162)
- Replace armv8/force-soft features with cfg attributes (#159)
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- armv8/force-soft features (#159)
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0.8.0-pre.2 24 Jul 2022 pre-release

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0.8.0-pre.1 20 Jul 2022 pre-release

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0.8.0-pre 17 Jul 2022 pre-release

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0.7.2 27 Aug 2021
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Changed
- Bump cpufeatures dependency to v0.2 (#136)
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0.7.1 20 Jul 2021
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Changed
- Pin zeroize dependency to v1.3 (#134)
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0.7.0 29 Apr 2021
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Changed
- Use ManuallyDrop unions; MSRV 1.49+ (#114)
- Use cpufeatures v0.1 crate release (#116)
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0.6.2 10 Dec 2020
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Added
- Runtime AVX2 detection (#97)
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0.6.1 29 Sep 2020
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Added
- AVX2 backend (#49)
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0.6.0 06 Jun 2020
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Added
- Poly1305::compute_unpadded for XSalsa20Poly1305 (#55)
Changed
- Bump universal-hash dependency to v0.4; MSRV 1.41 (#52, #57)
- Rename result methods to to finalize (#56)
Fixed
- Build with zeroize enabled (#48)
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0.5.2 14 Nov 2019
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Changed
- Upgrade to zeroize 1.0 (#33)
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0.5.1 04 Oct 2019
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Added
- Link to chacha20poly1305 and xsalsa20poly1305 crates from README.md (#26)
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0.5.0 04 Oct 2019
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Changed
- Upgrade to universal-hash crate v0.3 (#22)
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0.4.1 01 Oct 2019
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Changed
- Upgrade to zeroize v1.0.0-pre (#19)
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0.4.0 19 Sep 2019
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Changed
- Update to Rust 2018 edition (#3)
- Use UniversalHash trait (#5)
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0.3.0 26 Aug 2019
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Changed
- Switch from MacResult to built-in Tag type (RustCrypto/MACs#13)
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0.2.0 19 Aug 2019
Release notes
Added
- Poly1305::input_padded() ([#16])
Changed
- Change output to be a MacResult (RustCrypto/MACs#16)
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0.1.0 15 Aug 2019
Release notes
- Initial release
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0.0.0 06 Oct 2016

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